over-dubs occurr late

Hello,
I've been having this problem lately where the track that i over-dub is getting recorded one measure late from where it belongs (the entire track is off set by 1 measure late). This doesn't happen all the time, but often enough to cost me a few good takes. I just re-did them instead of killing my flow by sitting there trying to nudge the track to where it belongs. Not to mention wasting time retracking vocals on a 5+ minute song 3 or 4 extra times.

Anybody know why this is happening?
Thanks.

yes.

I don't think it is due to the count in because it happens sometimes when i start the overdub from a marker also (where there is no count in).

I can say that i threw away some good takes because of this.
I got other good stuff from the next take, but still, this is a drag.
I'm always worried after the take if I'm going to have to ditch it.

Whenever I see weird stuff like that I immediately shut down and do a hard reboot.

1 entire measure off is massive, that ain't right. That's not your Record Latency either, if it is you have a serious problem with your audio card.

Ive had it with both midi and audio in the past.  In both cases turning off the count in on the metronome fixed the issue.  As Brundlefly suggests though, no need to throw out the take.  You can easily slide it where it needs to be.

Good luck, hopefully the count in thing is what is causing it

Thanks guys,
I'm working only with audio in these last few projects.
It shouldn't be latency since i"m using a vstudio 100 and I'm only dropping vocals on a stereo file, so track counts are only like about 3 to 5.

I'll have to look into shutting off the count in, presently the metronome output is assigned to 'none.'

I'll also check into sliding/nudging. I began to do that when this first started happening, but it wasn't cooperating, so instead of getting all into the help files and the X1 Power manual and killing my creative vibe, I just re-tracked the vocal. sometimes i was left with the feeling though of the 'fish that got away.'

@ lorneyb2,
This has happened at various points in the songs, there doesn't seem to be any predictability.
None of the vocal parts to these songs are in the first measure, so i can't say for sure, but my guess is that it would happen there too from time to time.

I disabled the metronome during recording by:
Preferences>Metronome, in the "General area" set Record Count-in to "0" measures. > Apply.

Hopefully this will solve the problem for now, though what is someone to do when they require the count-in and can't disable it?

All I can suggest is that you make a copy of the project, and start stripping things out of it until the problem goes away, and see if you can identify the specific project content that's causing it.
 
What interface and driver mode are you using, incidentally?

brundlefly


What interface and driver mode are you using, incidentally?

V-Studio 100 with current Roland, the same ones for the Octa-Capture.

Sorry brundlefly, I typed hastily and made a mistake.
What i meant to say was vstudio 100 with current Roland drivers; the same ones used for the octa-capture (though i don't have an octa-capture, the drivers are the same). They are ASIO drivers.